2011 Pin Diagram

[KotOr]

Hello. Guys I need help. I bought Rampage IV Extreme (Just for fun time and overclock). The guy send me picture of socket. Everything look fine so i bought it, but at home after close inspection i notice something weird about socket. If you look from one side all pins are nice and shiny, but if you look from oposit side there is little dark spot. So i took board at work we have microscope there and we check it. And we found out that one pin has missing golden head (i am sorry i dont know how to say it better). So it's not bend so i can't try to fix it. I tried put electrical tape on CPU and put it into socket and close it, after i remove it from socket i check the tape and i can see that there is little mark so there should be contact but its not that big mark as the others pin of course.I tried power it and everything looks fine. All 4x4 GB are detected XMP works (in red slots didn't tried black), i check all PCIe slots and they work at correct speed. I tried find pin diagram to check what is purpose of that broken pin, but didn't find any nice one like you could find for 1151. So what i find it looks like that pin is for DDR1_DQ[16].  And i absolutely don't know what is that supposed to be. Should i be worried? Currently i have 3930k and i was planning to get some 4xxx K cpu. I have sticky copper tape and i was wondering if i could try put few little pieces on that specific pin on CPU side so there is bigger height and that could bring better contact

 

That CPU socket and pin description are from intel datasheet from this Reddit  post

 

Thanks

[RollinLower]

to be honest of the board is functioning and the XMP and PCIe settings look good, then i wouldn't bother.

if you try to fix it with copper tape like you said, but the tape slips or due to the heat of the chip, the adhesive softens, you might get a short in your socket and that is definitely a bad time.

 

[jaslion]

If it still works then there is nothing to worry about. Probably just some discoloration happened.

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

If it still works then there is nothing to worry about. Probably just some discoloration happened.

you can see on the pic OP posted that the pin is really broken tough.

 

OP is just lucky that the only thing that broke is the very tip of the pin. so the rest of the pin is still long enough to make contact with the CPU.

[KotOr]

2 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

to be honest of the board is functioning and the XMP and PCIe settings look good, then i wouldn't bother.

if you try to fix it with copper tape like you said, but the tape slips or due to the heat of the chip, the adhesive softens, you might get a short in your socket and that is definitely a bad time.

 

That is good point, i didn't think that far ahead

[jaslion]

5 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

you can see on the pic OP posted that the pin is really broken tough.

 

OP is just lucky that the only thing that broke is the very tip of the pin. so the rest of the pin is still long enough to make contact with the CPU.

Now that I've upped the brightness of my screen I see what you mean. Op is indeed lucky. I would avoid getting a 4000 series cpu in case they do use the pin.

[svmlegacy]

Looks like the head is bent up, not missing. It's probably still making contact. I'd refrain from too many insert/remove cycles, and just run it as is.